At first, there was the inevitable panic about the colour. It had the unfortunate characteristic of looking just like the original colour al...

So, a few weeks ago, the hubby asks me, "What do you want for Mother's Day?" And I said either; a) Please finish the fire...

We finally rented a chainsaw! We were able to get a 16" electric. The big decision for the husband was whether to buy one (for $60) or ...

The husband has completed re-routing the eavestroughing at the front door. Here it is as of yesterday: Just for fun, let's compare t...

Sometimes it pays to procrastinate! The geraniums (2) were 1/2 off--$1.50 each. They had no blooms whatsoever. I talked to another shopper a...

I'm afraid this gardening thing has been all-consuming. I imagine it would be fairly boring to anyone not similarly obsessed, so I have...

....on my dining room floor. Light, that is. Natural light. From the sun. First, a photo from earlier this month. The next is from this ...

Turns out my third unidentified plant is.....( drum roll , please) alfalfa. Alfalfa! So, I'm growing vetch, clover and alfalfa along wit...

I have a front bed which is weird. It is a long, narrow thing--thirty feet long on the left of the sidewalk and, mysteriously, only about 8 ...

It's not really a fair comparison--the first pictures were taken while a storm threatened and the light was dull. The second, after the ...

Sorry it's blurry. The paint is dry, now. It looks darker irl (it was supposed to dry darker)--but I don't like it as much. It's...

It's a serious question! As I mentioned a long, long time ago, it will take 10 gallons to put one coat on this monster. I bought a q...

The beast is out of the ground. It took a week. One wheelbarrow of dirt a day. We never did find any large "taproot" holding down ...

An arbourist should be out in a few days to look at our "sick" tree and see if we can save it. (It's the one in the foreground...

I sprayed this section with that herbicide. This is day 4 after application. Nothing seemed to happen. There was slight yellowing, but ...

I finally bit the bullet and planted one of my tomatoes. (I didn't have enough soil for the second.) Step One. Agonize about the co...